Feed-cutter



(No Model.)

J. H. PARRISH.

FEED CUTTER.

No. 337,429. Patented Mar. 9, 1886.

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JOHN H. PARRISH, OF NEAR SAUNDERSVILLE, TENNESSEE.

FEED-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,429, dated March 9, 1886.

Application filed August 10, 1885. Serial No. 174,049. (No model.)

To'aZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, JOHN H. PARRISH, a citizen of the United States, residing near Saundersville, in the county of Sumner and State of Tennessee, have invented new and useful Improvements in Feed-Cutters, of which the following is a specification.

My machine, to be used to cut feed of all kinds'for stock, consists of a combination of simple agencies which, when put together, form a machine, which for strength, durability, cheapness, light draft, simplicity, and efficiency as a feed-cutter is more useful and valuable than any machine of its kind known to me, and is more minutely described as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters refer to similar parts throughoutthe figures.

Figure 1 is a view of asolid iron cuttingwheel having a plain face with blocks and cutting-knives thereon. Fig. 2 is the reverse side of said wheel, and Fig. 3 is a top or plan View ofthe feed-cutter with all the parts in position.

P is a solid iron wheel with hub D in the center, through which passes a shaft at right angles with the face of the wheel, and with a rim, L, of greater thickness than the intermediate portions, for the purpose of giving to it weight as a driving-wheel, as well as power to the stroke ofthe cutting-knives. The reverse side of the wheel has a plane face, A, and two straight steel knives, B B, fastened by bolts, which pass through blocks 0 and a a to the face of the wheel. The thickness of these blocks 0 and a a indicates and regulates the length of the pieces of feed-stuff cut off by the knives B B, and may be used in the same ma chine of different thicknesses, the feed-stuff to be pushed through the feed-box I against the plane face of the iron driving-Wheel. (See Fig. 3.)

H is a wooden frame, upon which is fastened a feed-box, I, in the end of which is fastened a narrow steel plate, N.

J J J J are foul-bearings, in which the shafts E and (2 turn. One end of the long shaft E passes through the hub D of the solid iron wheel, being fastened with a set-screw. Upon the other end of the long shaft is a beveled pinion, F, with which the bevel gear-wheel F, fastened upon the shortshaft, meshes, communicating the power applied by the hand to the crank K (which is attached to the end of the short shaft 6) to the iron driving-wheel P, causing said wheel to revolve rapidly, bringing the steel knives B B in contact with the feed to be cut at the edge of the steel plate N in the end of the feed-box I, the knives acting with the steel plate upon the same principle as a pair of shears. The knives are fastened to the block, which extends across the center of the driving-wheel at such an angle as to bring the steel plate N in conjunction with the cutting-edge of the knives at an acute angle, the cutting process beginning at a point on the edge of the knives nearer the center of the wheel and extending along the edge of the knives as the wheel revolves toward the rim of the wheel.

G is a pulley on or near the end of the long shaft outsidethe driving-wheel, to which may be attached belting when it is desirable to use horse or steam power.

I claim as my inventionand desire to secure by Letters Patent In a feed-cutting machine, the combination, with the feed-box having a steel plate in the end thereof, of a solid iron wheel having a plane face, the interchangeable blocks to regulate the length of the cut of the feed, and the straight steel cutting-knives set in parallel planes, substantially as described.

JOHN H. PARRISH.

In presence of T. F. WITHERSPOON, THOS. H. KING. 

